It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live at all if we die and stop being? Father wasn't ready to be stopped. No one's ready to be stopped. We don't have *time* to be ready to be stopped. It's all crazy.
. . . Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but *he* is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through.
Tag: existence
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
Winston S. ChurchillTag: existence purpose meaning
Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.
Criss JamiTag: motivational wisdom inspirational strength happiness pain love greatness existence power strong perspective peace god faith will joy hope different suffering endurance shame understanding adversity attitude perseverance character powerful problem misunderstood hardship invincible faithfulness rejoice endure manifest strong-willed mistaken different-perspective manifestation unstoppable-force seeing-things-in-a-different-way unstoppable invincible-will
Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.
David MaineTag: existence desperation biblical
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
Kenneth PatchenTag: existence music destiny improbable
One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.
Philip PullmanCasting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.
Lionel ShriverPhotographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Henri Cartier-BressonTag: photography existence photojournalism
True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.
Tiffany MadisonTag: life truth art experience existence humanity artist
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
Hermann HesseTag: existence youth existentialism maturity
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